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FSI's scholars tackle a range of issues, from longstanding concerns like nuclear nonproliferation and military defense to new challenges such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and emerging regional conflicts.

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The Myth of the AI Race

Treating AI as a contest with a single finish line and a single victor is a misleading premise that fundamentally misrepresents how the technology is developing and how United States and China are competing, argues Colin Kahl.

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NATO Did Not Cause Putin's Imperial War

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine was primarily about Putin’s imperial beliefs, not great power politics, and that Russian fear of NATO was not a major factor in the march to war, write Jim Goldgeier and Brian Taylor.

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The Dangerous Fallout of Trump’s Retreat to the Hemisphere

Gabrielius Landsbergis cautions that America's return to 20th century-style spheres of influence has the potential to create severe strategic dilemmas for the United States, as allies turn away and emboldened enemies begin to converge.

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Featured Scholars

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Rose Gottemoeller

William J. Perry Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution

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David Relman

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor

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Scott Sagan

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science

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Amy Zegart

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

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Commentary

Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics

Bloomberg News, 2011

Books

African Agricultural Productivity Growth and R&D in a Global Setting

Center on Food Security and the Environment, 2011

Journal Articles

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

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Journal of Political Economy, 2011

Commentary

What's Next for Medvedev?

The National Interest, 2011

Working Papers

Strategic Alliances Between National and International Oil Companies

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, 2011

Journal Articles

Deterring Strategic Cyberattack

IEEE Security & Privacy, 2011

Journal Articles

The Global Costs of American Ethanol

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The American Interest, 2011

Working Papers

Assessment Paper on Non‐Proliferation

Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 2011

Commentary

The false promise of the nation-state

Al-Jazeera (English), 2011

Commentary

No Need to Reset the Reset

The New York Times, 2011

Commentary

Al Qaeda is Down, Not Out

Los Angeles Times, 2011

Commentary

9/11 and the makers of history

Al Jazeera (English), 2011

Books

Leaders and International Conflict

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Cambridge University Press, 2011

Books

American Interests in South Asia: Building a Grand Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India

2011

Books

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

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Columbia University Press, 2011

Journal Articles

Rape Reporting During War: Why the Numbers Don't Mean What You Think They Do

Foreign Affairs, 2011

Commentary

Wer hilft den Opfern?

Die Welt, 2011

Books

Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security

Stanford University Press, 2011

Commentary

When will European groups send flotillas to help people of North Korea and Syria?

Ynetnews.com, 2011

Journal Articles

Strife and Secession in Sudan

Journal of Democracy, 2011

Journal Articles

Adventures in scientific nuclear diplomacy

Physics Today, 2011

Commentary

The Biggest Threat to Western Values

Al-Jazeera (English), 2011

Journal Articles

Restitution for Reconciliation: The US, Japan, and the Unpaid Assets of Asian Forced Mobilization Victims

The Journal of Northeast Asian History, 2011

Journal Articles

The New Asianism: Japanese Foreign Policy under the Democratic Party of Japan

Asia Policy, 2011

Commentary

Nuclear Zero? Why Not Nuclear Infinity?

The Wall Street Journal, 2011